On Watching “Pose” As a Transgender Woman

Jennifer Alexander-Allen
5 min readJul 30, 2018

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My fiancee and I finished watching “Pose" on FX a few weeks ago. We had seen rave reviews and knew that Ms. Mock was deeply involved in the writing and production. As the only show on television to have five transgender actresses in lead roles, I was at once excited for the program and scared to start watching it because it seemed too progressive to last. As a queer trans woman, I was reluctant to become invested in…

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Jennifer Alexander-Allen

Writer. Queer Theologian -- Published in "When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience" -- Pronouns: she/they -- @queeringcaitlin